Tidenham, Gloucestershire

Burgums and Burghams of the "FF" family tree lived here, or nearby.

TIDENHAM ST MARY has an early 13th century west tower supported by clasping buttresses with lancet windows. Another upper part was added to the tower in the 15th century, which could be scene from the River Severn, thus acting as a beacon for navigation. Entering the church through a south porch into the nave, you face the north aisle ahead and the chancel is to your right. All are 13th century. The church was much renovated in 1858.

Tidenham Chase St Michael and All Angels, built in 1888, is a few miles further north in the parish. It sits in a clearing and has a rock-faced nave, chancel, south porch and a bellcote.

The list below shows the baptisms, marriages and burials that took place at Tidenham.

(1) Robert Charles Lynche-Blosse was born 5th August 1848 in Bridgend. He married Mary Walker in 1881, in Sussex and had a daughter Ethel and a son Robert Cyril. He was vicar of Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire, before becoming vicar of Tidenham. He died 13th July 1933, in Bournemouth, Hampshire.

(2) Rev. Reginald Pemberton Steer was born at Harborne, in Staffordshire, in about 1884. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was curate at All Saints Southampton from 1910 until 1914 when he became vicar of Tidenham (1914-1930). He was also perpetual curate at Beachley, about 3 miles south of Tidenham. He later moved to become vicar at Stroud.

(3) Rev George R. Newman had been vicar of Holy Trinity, Drybrook, where he and the Rev. Lawton were the only two vicars of the parish to ride a horse about on his pastoral duties. In 1935 he moved to Tidenham, in the south of the Forest of Dean.